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[The poet] is endowed to speak for those who do not have the gift of language, or to see for those who – for whatever reasons – are less conscious of what they are living through.

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Since men are loyal at least to their own world-view, their laws of brotherhood and self-interest.
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I don’t think we can separate art from overall human dignity and hope.
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Some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand–a center of gravity.
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The most important thing a woman can do for another is to illuminate her actual possibilities.
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I’ve had to guess at her, sewing her skin together as I sew mine, though with a different stitch
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Re-vision — the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction – is for women more than a chapter in cultural history: it is an act of survival.
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I came to explore the wreck.
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A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.
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